H9 ELA Module

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Description of Tool or App
Flashcards+ free is a tool to help students of all ages study using an old fashioned method that has been updated with the latest technology. Students are able to create their own flashcards, put cards into "stacks" depending on topic, share stacks and access those made public. Flashcards can be created using the app or online. Quizlet.com and Studyshack.com allow users to access thousands of flashcards already created on their sites. Flashcards+ free offers multiple language support. In addition, students can customize the appearance of flashcards to suit their preferences and needs. Users can change the font (choice of three), the font size, and font color ( choice of five).

In the Quizlet.com stack of flashcards, users choose from one of the following categories : Arts & Literature, Languages & Vocabulary, Math & Science, History & Geography, Standardized Tests, and Professional & Careers. Each broad category then break into anywhere from five to nine subcategories. Each sub-category then breaks down into genres ( for lack of a better term). Each genre offers many sets of flashcards.

In the StudyStack.com stack of flashcards, users choose from one of the following categories : Agriculture, Business, Geography, History, Languages, Law, Math, Medical, Miscellaneous, Science and Standardized Tests. Depending on the category, it becomes even more specific. The Language category offers quite an array of languages and literature, reading and writing strategies and devices.

Flashcards+ plus users can study by flipping through the cards or they can activate quiz mode. In quiz mode students are timed, and can skip and come back to cards of which they are unsure. User progress is evaluated throughout the quiz with check marks or "x"s.

Benefits of Tool or App
  • Effective and easy way to learn and remember new information
  • Simple and condense as to only focus on important facts and ideas
  • Portable
  • Multiple modes of accessibility so that most, if not all, students can use
  • Can be used to create or just study flashcards
  • Cannot lose flashcards


Constraints of Tool or App
  • Does not allow for students to add pictures or images to enhance understanding
  • Cannot see back of the card first
  • Users cannot access cards on multiple devices ( supposedly working on this)
  • Cannot search through a deck, can only search for a deck.

How To Use Tool or App
  1. Go to app store icon on mobile device.
  2. Search for " Flashcards + Free" by Allen Kou
  3. Click on the install button
  4. Once the app is finished installing, open the tool.
  5. Choose on of the four icons : My cards, Favorites, Quizlet or StudyStack. Users can always return to the home screen of the app by touching the home button (it looks like a house) located in the top left corner.
  6. If you choose My Cards, you will be presented with decks you have already created. If this the first time using this app: press the + button in the top right of the screen and follow directions for naming deck. When finished the app will go back to menu screen of your decks. Press on the deck you are building and further directions will appear on the screen. Users will be directed to fill on information for the front and the back of each card before moving to the next one.
  7. To flip through cards once they are made, touching the card will flip it over and sliding it the left or right will present the next card. This is the same process for any type of deck the user is using.
  8. Favorites will only appear in the favorites section of the application after you having "starred" a deck similar to favoriting a webpage on an internet browser or on Twitter.
  9. The Quizlet button will direct the user to choose a category and sub-category of a genre or topic. The tool will then share pre-made or existing decks suitable to what has been selected.
  10. The StudyStack button works the same way as the Quizlet button.
  11. If the users wants to quiz him or herself, load the desired deck then press the "menu" button on the mobile device to be presented with the "quiz" option.


Original Artifact of Tool or App
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This is an example of a definition flashcard made by one of my students in my AP English Language and Composition class.


Classroom Uses for Tool or App

Student Uses
  • Students can create cards as a vocabulary assignment, have to study by always, and be able to share with teacher for a grade at any given point.
  • Students can create cards to demonstrate examples of various rhetorical devices and update as more examples are found.
  • Students can color code flashcards to demonstrate knowledge of parts of speech or types of rhetorical devices.

Teacher Uses
  • Teachers can create review decks for students.
  • Teachers may use the application in quiz mode with an external display device for an interactive game.
  • Teachers can use with an external display device to demonstrate through color coding the classification of terms or examples. For example : epistrophe is a type litote.